Uber, Google and others form self-driving car lobby to shape US policy
by Nellie Bowles in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#1BXAK)
Google, Uber, Lyft, Ford and Volvo - all developing self-driving car technology - have formed a lobbying group to take on regulation of autonomous vehicles
If your self-driving car crashes, who gets sued? Google, Uber, and Ford would rather it be you, according to some experts.
Tech companies making self-driving cars could become better protected under the law than those car's owners, experts warn, as the announcement came of a powerful new coalition of automakers and big tech companies forming to take on US government regulations around self-driving vehicles.
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